A gendarme during a road check.
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Syspéo / Sipa
A man shot a gendarme in the leg with the military service weapon he seized during a road check in Sanguinet (Landes), the Mont-de-Marsan prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday , specifying that he had been taken into custody for "attempted murder".
The days of the gendarme, injured in a thigh and hospitalized in Arcachon (Gironde), are not in danger, said the same source, confirming information from the local press.
The man fled
The suspect, a man in his twenties, is suspected of having stolen the service weapon of a gendarme during a traffic stop at midday and of having fired a shot at him in a leg.
The soldiers had asked him to stop but at first he refused to comply.
He was able to flee but was arrested shortly after in the same town and then placed in custody in Parentis-en-Born (Landes).
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